Why is it that most Anti-gun folks have never fired a gun?
I mean really, whats the deal? How can someone be so jaded that they devolp a hatred of an inatimate object? For example, my 'assault rifle' never assaulted ANYBODY.
I personally belive that responsible gun ownership is simply a statement that says: "I believe my life and the lives of my family are more important than the Meth addicted gang member ex-felon breaking down my door at 2AM."
2010-07-03T08:44:39Z
At Wizard: private party sales at gun shows are no different then private party sales anywhere else. There is no special "gun show only loophole".
Dont drink any more of the kool-aid.
MJ2010-07-02T20:44:41Z
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The man on the newscast said that guns are BAD and guns are SCARY, so I won't TOUCH a gun or even ALLOW one in my house.
I believe that PEACE and LOVE will stop a violent meth-head criminal from RAPING or MURDERING me. After all, I have only HAPPY thoughts and WOULDN'T hurt a fly, so that's the way that everyone else is TOO. Unless they own a GUN of course, then they are SCARY, BAD people, and I am AFRAID of them. If you own a GUN you MUST be a CRIMINAL.
GUNS aren't for me, THEREFORE they aren't for YOU.
To be fair, some pro-gun people are equally overzealous and are also unwilling to accept the notion that there are legitimate reasons why individuals oppose the sale and ownership of guns. Especially in inner cities were citizens have a difficult time getting them to protect themselves, while criminals run rampant through the neighborhoods terrorizing people who are trying to legally etch out a living.
People that live in rural areas have an entirely different perspective on guns than those in urban areas. Having been raised in one and now living in the other, I see both sides of the argument. Some people do not need to get on a plane before they develop a fear of flying. So I don't see how firing a firearm should be a requirement for developing an opinion on the matter.
I fall somewhere in the middle. I believe in the 2nd Amendment and I exercise my Constitutionally granted right to bear arms. But I hold certain beliefs about the need for restrictions too.
Not every Democrat is anti-gun, just as I know that not every Republican wants to turn America into a Bible-Thumping Theocracy. What we need to do is just accept that there are people who like guns and have them and there are those that do not. There is room for being reasonable on both sides of the argument. Problem is there are zealots on both sides that have the need to carry things out to the extreme.
The damned media and polite society. Society must be broken. If it isn't, we (the procurers and protectors of the 2nd) will never be free. We need to show them. Many people will believe whatever is spoon fed to them through the media outlets. Like an intravenious line in a brain dead patient. The spawn has formed. The spawn of a governmental power that must be dismantled. It will do nothing more than perpetuate the spreading of a cancerous sub-being, a tumor in the skull of our nation. Tis is a place where things can be taken back, with force if neccecary. When the UT shootings took place in 66, who held down Whitman from a firing position? A well armed local populace. The police, the so-called "protectors" had their thumbs shoved so far up their asssess they didn't know what the hell to do. I believe that the anti-gun community would change their mind if someone kicked in their door, raped their women and killed their men. They would then know the value of self-preservation by means of using deadly force with firearms.
Virginia already has laws against carrying concealed weapons. It didn't stop Monday's tragedy. Why would further gun control laws prevent any further such attacks? Laws merely disarm those who adhere to them, not those who would use a gun in a crime anyway. The saddest part about these things is that so soon afterward - hell the final body counts aren't even known yet - right away the zealots on both sides hit the airwaves, preying on the raw emotions of all of us.
I think they are just afraid of them. I think if every body was required to fire a gun some point in their life there would not be as many detractors. I read a blog somewhere that stated a bunch of anti-gunners went to a gun show on a field trip to see the "horrors" for themselves, but most left with a new understanding of the reality of what goes on there. When I was in elementary school we had a cun club through 4-H, I don't think you would find that these days.